Institutional change and property rights before the industrial revolution: wardship in britain, 1485–1660
Auteur :
Bottomley, Sean
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781009384353
Date de publication :
31 déc. 2025
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
An important study of institutional change pre-industrialisation, Bottomley examines wardship, the Crown right to seize underage heirs and their land. Wardship was highly corrupted and representative of decaying state capacity. Without constitutional change in the seventeenth-century, Britain could not have industrialised in the eighteenth.